Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
KANSAS STATE NEWs.

with Willard +. Blake as post master.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has made the follow
ing appointments of delegates and alter
mates to the seventh annual session of the
Farmers Congress OF the United States, to
be held at Chicago, November 1 to 5: at
large. Hon A. w. Smith, OF Mcpherson,
and Hon. Matt. Edmunds, of McLouth;
First district, B. F. Wallack. of bingham;
Second. Hon. F. w. Breyfo2 ell, OF Lenexa;
Third, A p. Sanders, of Hound Valley;
Fourth, Thomas NJ. Potter, of Peabody;
Fifth, Hon. A. P. Collins, of Solomon City;
Sixth, Captain A B. Balch, of Cerro Gordo;
Seventh, Hon. R. L. Lawrence, OF Wichita
Alternates at large, Hon. james c. Cusey,
of Linsborg, and Hon. J. J. Veatch, OF Nor
row; First district, Hon. =. j. Elliott, of
Morrill, Second, Hon. S. ]. Stewart, of
lola; Third, w. II. Gibson, of Sedan;
Fourth, John C. Rankin, of Quenemo;
Fifth, Theodore IngersoIl, of Clay Center;
Sixth, Martin Mohler of Osborne; Seventh,
Hon. Il. G. St. Clair, of Belle Plain.
THE Acting Secretary OF the Interior has
disallowed the claim of John R. Allen. of
Morris County, for alleged depredations by
the Indians In 1861.
CAPTAIN QUINTAN CAMPBELL, formerly
of the regular army, and a newspaper nan
well-known in Kansas City, recently shot
his young wife at Leavenworth, but fortu-
nately not infllcting fatal wound There
cause for the act. While in Kansas City
some five or six years ago, Captain Camp
bell was married to his present wife, who
was then only sixteen years old. He had
but recently taken position on the Sun,
new evening paper at Leavenworth.
TOPEKA has embryo Anarchist, named
Boutwell,, who has been giving the police no
little trouble. Recently he refused TO fur
nish names of men boarding with him SO
hot to1D ha en- va6 on
For this he was arrested, and threw a
hatchet at the officer. With the help of two
men Boutwell, was loaded in a wagon and
hauled to Jail. He had to be carried before
the police justice and refused to answer
questions or even speak. The judge fined
him 500 and ordered him to the stone gang.
The officers had to drag him, and on his re-
fusal to work he was placed in close con-
fnement. He regrets that he IS not one OF
the Chicago Anarchists to be hanged and
become martyr.
MEMBERS of the Sovereign Grand Lodge,
l. o. o. F., had a regular ovation on their
passage through Kansas on their way to
Denver.
BIDS were opened at Washington on the
10Th for joiner work, roof thing and addi-
tionaT$ flooring for the public building at
Leavenworth. There were bidders from
number of places, but the bid OF j. McGon-
igle, of Leavenworth, was ths lowest.
A LEAvENwoRTH officer recently stopped
d lot of children having play show" for
which they charged penny admission, I'M
til city license was obtained.
GENERAL BLACK, Comm Issloner of Pen
sions, will visit Kansas about October II,
on which occasion he will accompany the
board of managers of the National Soldiers
Home.
THE officers of the Temperance Mutual
Benefit Union will fight in the courts the
recent decision OF Insurance Commissioners
Wilder declaring forfeited the right of the
company to conduct an insurance business
N the State.
LEAvENwoRTH recently rung her fire
bells, blew her steam whistles and other
wise made noise over the successful oper-
alton of another coal shaft which had
struck coal in paying quantities at depth
of TO feet,
AN unfortunate veteran by the name Of
Leland G. Townsend, was helped off the
Union Pacific train at Topeka the other
afternoon. He was paralyZed, deaf and
helpless. His home is at Denver He was
taken in hand by some kind passengers
and assisted into the depot. They left him
i'll charge of 4 stranger while they went to
dinner and the scoundrel robbed him of
his ticket and his pocket-book, containing
$50. The local G. A. r. members made up
a purse and forwarded him on his way.
THOMAS LARHIN, twenty years old, re-
Gently attempted to board a Missouri Pa
citic freight tram at Leavenw orth, made a
misstep, fell under the cars and was killed.
IN the late habeas corpus case of James
Grace, an alleged liquor dealer, against
Marshal Roberts, before the district court
of Leavenworth, Judge Crozier discharged
the plaintiff IS to keeping place where
liquors were sold. Judge Crozier rendered
a verbal opinion declaring the power OF the
Governor over the police courts of cities
and his control through the police COM
missioners as unconstitutional. Grace's
attorney will therefore institute proceed
ings to GUST the police judge. the police
commissioners, city marshal and the police
force.
The other evening Chief of Police Harris,
of Wichita, received telegram to arrest
seventeen-year-old boy, named Charley
Brown, for whom reward was offered.
He was charged with breaking into st ore
and then stealing horse at Bartlesville, IN
the Indian Territory, from a man named
Brooks, who would arrive and Identify him
A lad soon arrived on a construction train
and was pointed out as the party wanted.
When accosted by the officer he ran and
was fired on and fatally wounded. His
companions declared that he was not the
party wanted, and in his dying declarations
the lad corroborated their statement, and
requested that his body be sent TO his par
ents at Meridian, Tex.
ABOUT nine o'clock the other morning
Henry Frey, an old citizen OF Lawrence,
was found lying in a half conscious condi-
ton in a storeroom over his place OF busi-
ness. witk his head IN pool of blood and
an ugly bullet wound in his forehead by
his side lay a revolver. He was taken 10
his house and an examination made. This
showed that the bullet upon entering just
above the left eye took a downward course
and lodged in the lower left lobe of the
brain, paralyzing one entire side OF the
body. He had been in a Respondent mood
for some weeks. 1t was thought he would
die
F. S. THoRNE, Of Kearney County, has
filed suit in the District Court at Topeka
against Governor Martin to enjoln him
from declaring Lakin the county seat OF